200-: Some characters cannot be translated between codeset_1 and codeset_2

Explanation

The SITE SBDATACONN command specified the code set names for the file system code set and the network transfer code set. The iconv() function was used to build a table for each of the 256 single character codepoints. Some of the codepoints do not have an equivalent codepoint. If FTP detects a data byte during the transfer of the data that cannot be translated using the tables, the data transfer will fail.

codeset_1 is the name of the file system code set.

codeset_2 is the name of the network transfer code set.

System action

The tables are built and will be used during data transfer by FTP.

User response

Specify SITE SBDATACONN with code set names that convert all of the codepoints. However, you can use the table if your data does not contain any of the untranslatable characters.

System programmer response

To see which of the codepoints cannot be translated, start the server with the following trace specified in the FTP.DATA file:
DEBUG UTL         ; utility services trace